2011 Black Friday Bargain Guide

Are you ready for Black Friday? We have your guide to the best deals right here!

by Editor Nov 23rd, 2011

Well, it’s that time of year again. Before you stuff your face full of Who-pudding and rare Who-beast, it’s time to strap on the steel toe boots and pump some iron to fight off the raucous crowds of retail zombies looking to score a deal. To alleviate your fear and hopefully save you from being trampled by your consumer peers, we’ve put together a simple list of must-grab items for this coming Black Friday and the stores at which to locate them.

Gamers should be especially happy this season, as there’s plenty of great (new!) titles available for cheap. Better yet, we’ll even manage to get you a brand new home theater setup for under $400. Try doing that on any other day but Black Friday.

Forty Inches and 1080p for under $300 is a deal worth fighting for during the Black Friday madness. Sure, you’ll have to endure an ass-early trip to Walmart, but you’ll have the last laugh after you’re mass murdering bad guys as Nathan Drake with your discounted copy of Uncharted 3.

We wouldn’t suggest splurging on a brand new 40” TV if you couldn’t have a booming sub-woofer and 5.1 surround sound to go with it. For $100, you’ll get a quality system that will be sure to make your windows rattle with every swoop of a spaceship or swinging of a lightsaber.

Toshiba Blu-ray Player – $39.99 (Kmart)

Hopefully you picked up a dirt cheap PlayStation 3 to play them new Blu-ray discs you snatched up, but if gaming isn’t your thing, not to worry. Kmart’s got the best Blu-ray player deal that you’ll find on Friday, so snag this when you’re grabbing your new sound system!

In need of a new PC? Know someone that is? This is a more than serviceable baseline computer for all of the normal needs of a functional human being: word processing, googling, social networking, streaming video, porn. The works. Why bother with one of those teeny-tiny netbooks when you can have a full-fledged PC for the same price?

While much smaller than every other item on this list (including video games), this might be the most essential for 21st century living. Be able to snag files on the fly, share pictures, backup important documents. The days of e-mailing this to yourself are over! Especially for this dirt cheap thumbdrive — it’s only $1 per gig — there’s no excuse to ever lost a file ever again!